Originally Posted by the train yard:
Originally Posted by p51:
It's a plywood central right now, but once the scenery is in, it'll be late summer (in 1943). I have hundreds of scale corn stalks in O scale, just ready to plant in neat rows (even have the scale barbed wire and poles for the fences), I've always wanted to model a cornfield as it's so rare for people to do that...
I think that is a wonderful idea and true enough, You very rarely see corn fields being replicated on train layouts. Plan on any farm implements/tractors as well P51?
P.S. If I may ask, why P51? I ask because I love the aircraft and know quite allot about them. Ever here of Betty Jane? Anyway, I was just curious and not trying to be nosey.
Merry Christmas
Pete
No tractors. I'm modeling in the back woods of the Blue Ridge mountains during WW2. My parents grew up in the very valley I'm modeling, in that timeframe and nobody had the money for a 'new fangled' tractor there in that timeframe. The depression hit East Tennessee long before the stock market collapsed and some would argue that it never left. People plowed with horses. I'd love to have some tractor models but it just isn't accurate. Once the scenery is eventually done, I'll be looking for a horse drawn plow model to include.
Frankly, I'd rather model tobacco plants as that was the most common crop up there, but nobody makes them in O scale. So, corn it is as they did grow some up that way.
As for my login name, that's part of my email address and when i get onto a new forum, it's normally not taken already. I used to volunteer a lot with warbirds and I do have some time in a Mustang. The best 90 minutes of my life was flying formation in one with a B-17 off the left wing, and a B-24 off the right wing, after intercepting them over water (the Gulf of Mexico).
